Cara New Daggett
Cara Daggett is an Assistant Professor in Political Science and a founding member of the Mayapple Energy Transition Collective. She researches the politics and history of energy, and the problems confronting sustainable fuel transitions. She received her bachelor’s degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard University, a Master of Science in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Her book, The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work, was published by Duke University Press in 2019. Her other publications include “Energy & Domination: Contesting the Fossil Myth of Fuel Expansion”, Environmental Politics; “Toward Feminist Energy Systems: Why Adding Women and Solar Panels Isn’t Enough”, Energy Research and Social Sciences; and “Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire”, Millennium. For more information see www.caranewdaggett.com